On Aug 4, 8:54*am, Chuck wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
Sodium Silicate.

The government mandates that cars traded in under the "Cash for
Clunkers" program be permanently disabled and specifies that the
method used is to replace the oil with Sodium Silicate then run the
engine until it freezes.
This has caught the suppliers of the substance by surprise. One
company that sold maybe 150 gallons of the stuff a year has already
sold 15,000 gallons!
From the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124934376942503053.html

I'm not exactly what you would call a die hard "green" kind of a person, but
having learned the ways of thrift and economy from grandparents who survived
the great depression of 1929, I can't help but see this as a total waste of
otherwise useful resources.

Jon

This also feeds the greed of today's citizen. They forget that it is
there own tax money that's being spent. We will all pay for it later.
How many of the buyers actually can afford the new cars they are buying?
* Remember all the homes that they bought and couldn't keep. Will they
be working next week or next month. I doubt it. Party on!!!- Hide quoted text -

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Very few posts mention that _you and I_ are paying out those bonuses.
I hope my neighbor appreciates me helping him buy a new car.

Harry K